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Dustoff / Medevac: Still Images

The images listed below are photographs from individual soldiers, military photographers and others who have donated their photographs to the Vietnam Archive. The photographs for the most part are from the Vietnam War era and can be a good tool for visualizing the events of the war related through our documents or oral history interviews.

Please note that these images are only a sampling of the ones available from the Vietnam Archive. To find more use the advanced search module and the keywords suggested on the introductory page, narrow the media type to images in the right hand gray colored menu, click start search, then display search results and the database will display all of our Dustoff / Medevac photographs.

Click on the item number to view the complete record for the image or click on the thumbnail to view a larger image.

(022)The Face of War-- Corporal Larry R. Miklos, center, and an unidentified corpsman look in horror as an enemy machine gun fires at the medevac helicopter in which he is riding. Miklos an artillery forward observer, was wounded during an enemy ambush while on a search and destroy mission south of Da Nang on 1 September 1967. (open complete record)

In a secured area on the outskirts of Saigon, medics and members of an Aviation Medical Evacuation Unit practice airlifting a soldier from the ground, up into a Huey using a cable hoist, and then fly to a local medical facility. Speed and technique were graded and all concerned received a thumbs-up. Photo by Robert C. Lafoon US Army Sp Photo Det, Pacific (open complete record)

In a secured area on the outskirts of Saigon, medics and members of an Aviation Medical Evacuation Unit practice airlifting a soldier from the ground, up into a Huey using a cable hoist, and then fly to a local medical facility. Speed and technique were graded and all concerned received a thumbs-up. Photo by Robert C. Lafoon US Army Sp Photo Det, Pacific (open complete record)

Colonel Buessler was later Dean of the medical school at Lubbock. Man in the right background was a MEDEVAC medic, Harold Cornell Gay who was killed in a helicopter crash 20 October 1970. Photograph taken by Captain James B. Evans, M.C. (open complete record)